Collaborate Disseminate
Multirotors, or drones as they’re popularly called, are so ubiquitous as to have become a $10 toy. They’re no less fun to fly for it though, and learning how they …read more Continue reading Learn Multirotors From First Principles
The rumor mill has recently been buzzing about Nintendo’s plans to introduce a new version of their extremely popular Switch console in time for the holidays. A faster CPU, more …read more Continue reading AI Upscaling and the Future of Content Delivery
Why doesn’t this kind of stuff ever happen to us? One lucky day back in high school, [Dave Sieg] stumbled upon a room full of new equipment and a guy …read more Continue reading Scanimate Analog Video Synths Produced Oceans of Motion Graphics
There was a time when making a machine to identify objects in a camera was difficult, even without trying to do it in real time. But now, you can do …read more Continue reading Real Time Object Detection for $59
A research paper from Dalian University of Technology in China and City University of Hong Kong (direct PDF link) outlines a system that automatically generates comic books from videos. But …read more Continue reading Read Your Movies as Automatically Generated Comic Books
For American readers of a certain age, Local on the 8s likely holds a special spot in your heart. The program, once a staple of The Weather Channel, would provide viewers with …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering The Weather Channel’s Magic
[Sean Hodgins] is out with his latest video and it’s a piece of art in itself. Beyond a traditional project show and tell, he’s spun together a cyberpunk vibe to premiere the volumetric display he built from an OLED stackup. …read more
Continue reading Volumetric OLED Display Shows Bladerunner Vibe, Curious Screen Tech
Audio and video synthesizers have been around for decades, and are pretty much only limited by one’s willingness to spend money on them. That is, unless you can develop your own FPGA-supercharged synthesizer to really get a leg up on …read more
Continue reading Free to Good Home: FPGA Supercharged Audio/Video Synthesizer
When we first saw the Raspberry Pi Pico and its RP2040 microcontroller last month it was obvious that to be more than just yet another ARM chip it needed something special, and that appeared to be present in the form …read more
Continue reading Bitbanged DVI On A Raspberry Pi RP2040 Microcontroller
If it weren’t for persistence of vision, that quirk of biochemically mediated vision, life would be pretty boring. No movies, no TV — nothing but reality, the beauty of nature, and live performances to keep us entertained. Sounds dreadful.
We …read more